#2525 - Editor issues with links

By Adam Edington
Added 27th Apr 2016, 12:11 PM
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Identifier	#2525
Issue type	Feature request or suggestion
Title	Editor issues with links
Status	Closed (rejected)
Handling member	Chris Graham
Addon	General / Uncategorised
Description	When adding a link using the icon, there is no way to add a title. The title is the actual link when it is added. Trying to add a full stop after the link makes it part of the link unless you go to Source view. Can we allow for a title on the initial tab of the add link screen?
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By Guest posted 27th Apr 2016, 3:00 PM

Also break out of the link in the normal editor view so typing can commence.

By Guest posted 27th Apr 2016, 3:53 PM

This is a "CKEditor" bug on Firefox, and I can reproduce it on their latest demo:
http://ckeditor.com/demo
I couldn't see any open bug report they have about it, but I did see old ones from years ago that are closed.
You may want to report to them, but we'd go crazy trying to track little bugs like this - so our policy is to just maintain CKEditor with bulk updates from time to time.

I put CKEditor in quotes as it could also be a pure firefox bug. The WYSIWYG functionality ultimately is a web browser feature that full-featured systems like CKEditor build onto.

You can set text though. Type the text first, select it, then click the link button.

By Guest posted 27th Apr 2016, 4:01 PM

Okay, doesn't concern me enough to post a bug report and it might be Firefox as you said. Yes, I know you can type the title then set the link, just found it odd that with all the options in the link popup and there isn't one to set a title for those who may click to add the link before writing the title.

By Guest posted 27th Apr 2016, 4:03 PM

Yeah, certain things in CKEditor is a bit clunky. They're currently in the process of doing a complete ground-up rewrite - they've a lot of investment, and it's going more of a "Silicon Valley" direction in terms of the money going in and the expectations for it.